Akshara Brahma Yoga

True wisdom begins with the courage to ask the deepest questions about existence, Self, and the cosmic order.

The ultimate test of spiritual practice is not how we live, but how we remember the Divine at the moment of death.

The unchanging Absolute is Brahman; your deepest nature is adhyatma; and karma is the creative force that brings all beings into existence.

The changing world is the physical realm, the cosmic Person governs the divine realm, and I Myself am the Lord of sacrifice dwelling within every body.

One who remembers Me alone at the time of death attains My nature - this is certain.

Whatever state of being one remembers at death, that alone one attains - because one is always absorbed in that thought.

Therefore remember Me at all times and fight - with mind and intellect fixed on Me, you will surely come to Me.

With mind disciplined by yoga practice, not wandering elsewhere, meditating on the Supreme Divine Person, one goes to Him.

The Supreme is subtler than the subtlest atom yet supports all existence, self-luminous like the sun, forever beyond the reach of darkness.

At death, with unwavering mind, devotion, and yogic power, fixing the life-force between the eyebrows, one attains the Supreme Divine Person.

That Imperishable which the Vedic seers proclaim, which the passionless ascetics enter, desiring which seekers embrace brahmacharya—that supreme goal, Krishna promises to reveal.

Control all sensory gates, confine mind in the heart-cave, raise life-force to the crown—this is the yogic art of transcendence.

The single syllable Om is the passport to eternity—uttered with divine remembrance at death, it opens the door to the supreme.

For the one who remembers Krishna without distraction, the Lord Himself becomes easily attainable—the infinite makes Himself accessible to devoted love.

Those who reach Krishna never return to this temporary world of suffering—they have graduated from the school of existence.

Even the highest heaven ends—only Krishna's realm is eternal; all else is a temporary rest stop on the endless journey of rebirth.

Those who understand that Brahma's single day spans a thousand ages, and his night another thousand - only they truly comprehend cosmic time.

At cosmic dawn, all beings burst forth from the unmanifest; at cosmic night, they dissolve back into that same formless source.

Helplessly, O Arjuna, the same multitude of beings arises again and again at cosmic dawn, and dissolves again and again at cosmic night.

But beyond that unmanifest is ANOTHER unmanifest - eternal, supreme - which does not perish even when all beings perish.

The Imperishable Unmanifest is the supreme destination - once reached, there is no return to the cycle of birth and death.

The Supreme Person - in whom all beings exist and who pervades everything - is attainable only through undivided devotion.

Krishna introduces the mystery of cosmic timing - the paths of return and no-return that yogis travel based on the time of their departure.

Fire, light, day, the bright fortnight, the six months of the sun's northern journey - departing by this luminous path, the knowers of Brahman go to Brahman.

The path of smoke, darkness, and waning moon leads even the spiritual practitioner back to rebirth - partial attainment still binds.

Two eternal paths divide all journeys - one to freedom forever, one to return again; every choice moves you toward one or the other.

Knowing these paths, no yogi is ever deluded - therefore remain united in yoga at ALL times, not just in meditation.

The yogi who knows THIS transcends ALL the merit of scriptures, rituals, austerities, and charity - and returns to the supreme primordial Source.